A Luxury Bath Gallery Worth the Drive from Sacramento

Design Gallery is a luxury kitchen and bath gallery at 900 Sunrise Ave, Roseville, serving Greater Sacramento, with bath displays built as finished rooms rather than sample boards: vanities under real tops, showers and tubs set in tile, porcelain and stone, sinks and taps installed in place rather than laid out on a table. You visit by appointment with a designer, so the decisions a screen cannot settle are settled in one walk.

The bath displays sit inside the same building as the kitchens, and the same rule applies: nothing is a swatch. Manhattan carries Cortina Satin, a 30 by 60 inch marble-look porcelain, set with Mapei grout, over reeded Giovanna drawer fronts in Slate-stained walnut and an Eclos Ivora vanity top. Ukiyo Heaven is wrapped in Dekton Ukiyo, its fluted Bromo surface carried onto the cabinet fronts, with Brizo fixtures. Amsterdam pairs a shower and a tub with Moen fixtures, Astoria cabinetry painted Garden Gate and a Calacatta Cremo vanity top from IRG Stone.

Carrara and Salinas show grout-free acrylic wall panels with Moen fixtures; Luxtone runs uninterrupted slab cabinetry in Alvic Zenit Agua Marina; Tuscan is rift white oak in a White Washed Oak stain; and Naples puts an MSI acoustic wood slat wall behind the room. Cosentino Dekton, Silestone and Eclos run across the building, so a bath top is judged a few steps from the same family on the slab walls.

A shower wall is the one surface in a house you look at from eighteen inches away, every day, and a six-inch sample tells you almost nothing about it. The Shower Wall sets House of Rohl shower systems, rain heads, hand showers and valve trims, bay by bay on full-height Cambria quartz in Charlestown and Claremont. The Moen Wall does the same on IRG Stone slabs, from Taj Mahal and Calacatta Oro to Swiss Alps and Boost Grey, so finish, veining and contrast are read together, at the height you would live with, in the gallery's own light.

Vanity decisions are cabinetry decisions, and the bath displays show them built: floating in Ukiyo Heaven, painted Garden Gate in Amsterdam, slab-front in Luxtone and Tuscan, reeded walnut in Manhattan. A vanity drawn in any of those finishes can be held against the real door, at full height, before the drawing is signed off. DreamLine Custom Cabinetry builds the laundry room, the pet washroom and the mudroom on the same floor.

The sink islands do the same for the sink. The Kohler Island sets Kohler sinks into Egger Grey Textile cabinetry under MSI Calacatta quartz; the Karran Island holds Karran kitchen and vanity sinks in MSI SoliTaj and Cashmere Taj; The Galley display shows its workstations and the ledge their boards and racks ride. Bowl depth, the reach of the tap and the way a board rides the ledge are things a hand settles faster than a specification sheet.

The Kohler Island carries Kohler sinks, installed. Kohler reaches our clients through our designer partnerships: bring your plans and we will walk the collection, the finish and the rough-in with you, and hold each choice against the cabinetry and stone already on the drawing.

Two laundry rooms and a mudroom sit on the same floor as the baths. The laundry room runs an LG WashTower in Shinnoki Bondi Oak cabinetry with Viefe Pura handles in brushed brass. The Pet Washroom stacks a Miele W1 washer and T1 dryer beside a tiled dog wash with a hand shower, in Egger Diamond Grey cabinetry with Bedrosians Celine tile and Daltile Amazonite. The mudroom carries an LG washer and dryer on pedestals behind Giovanna doors in Alabaster paint and Barnwood Gray alder, because the dog's bath is a plumbing decision too.

Bath visits are booked ahead and walked with a designer: ours, or the designer, architect or builder you already work with. The gallery is open six days a week, and a booked session holds the displays and the time for your project, with your drawings on the table next to the real surfaces. Design professionals set up a partnership on the Trade Program page, and the designer directory lists the studios who bring their clients here. Other questions are answered on the FAQ page.

Design Gallery is a kitchen and bath gallery, and the two halves share a roof on purpose: the surface you choose for a bath is judged a few steps from the kitchen it will share a house with. The kitchen gallery covers the appliance, surface and cabinetry side; the Sub-Zero and Wolf in Roseville and the working kitchen are where the appliances are cooked on.

From Sacramento, Interstate 80 east to Roseville and the Douglas Boulevard corridor puts you at 900 Sunrise Ave; the Sunrise corridor does the same from the south. Granite Bay is ten minutes west along Douglas Blvd; El Dorado Hills is twenty-five minutes via US-50 and Hazel Ave; Folsom is twenty minutes via East Roseville Pkwy; Rocklin is ten minutes south on Sunrise Ave.

Design Gallery is a gallery, not a contractor. The selections you make here travel with you to whichever designer, architect or builder runs the project, with the model numbers, finish codes and rough-in requirements written down. DreamHome Appliance Group, inside Design Gallery, handles the appliances, so the laundry and the kitchen are planned in the same visit as the bath.